Rise of Rurik - Chapter 673

[Chapter 674 The Battle of Isotalva]

The magazines were smeared with grease, and the torsion ropes were greasy.

The manipulators of heavy weapons kept staring at the signal black flag, they saw the order to attack, and the fleets launched the attack almost at the same time.

Feather javelins slammed into the enemy formation in a flat parabola, and they were accompanied by a large number of conical cast iron bullets.

The Ross army launched this battle with a considerable amount of special projectiles, so there is no need to reserve military strength.

These javelins and projectiles have a very fast muzzle velocity and become the first weapons to strike the enemy.

I saw some black shadows coming towards me without warning, and the Karelian soldiers on the shore were unprepared for what happened next.

The javelin pierces the first person heavily, and often hits the second person behind, or even pierces three with one arrow.

The cast iron projectiles also flew in a swirl, their trajectories were too smooth, and the spiral grooves of the projectiles even rubbed against the air to produce a low hum.

The projectiles originally prepared to break through the mail armor pierced through the enemy’s head and chest. The huge power smashed the bones and muscles of the person, and the whole person was knocked down in a distorted manner.

Those bull trebuchets also came to help, and pebbles fell from the sky, and they fell in a high parabola at an almost vertical angle.

Some people have already started to defend. Shields covered with buckskin may be able to withstand the arrows of the Tavastians, and they are also effective against falling stones.

But the kinetic energy of the stone is very strong, the shield was smashed and sawdust flew across, and many people were hit on the head and shoulder…

The Karelian army formation was suddenly full of blood and flesh, but this was only the beginning.

The Suomi warriors standing on the deck were shooting arrows. They had a lot of troops, but their poor bows made their arrows only reach the shore, and some arrows were even blown into the water by the north wind.

When the support failed, Suomi and Vips’ servants stopped.

Ke Wen’s longbowmen and steel-armed crossbowmen are showing their power. Even if there is interference from the headwind, the arrows they fire still fall from the sky.

Rurik gave the order to fire freely.

Twenty torsion slingshots and five bull catapults were placed on the port side of the flagship.

Now the porthole of the captain’s cabin at the bow is also opened, and the launch rail of the slingshot is stretched out.

Due to distance, the Ross Army did not demonstrate the strongest long-range firepower.

Yefro was not satisfied with the situation of the battle. His fellow Suomi practiced the “Arrow Rain Tactic” under his training, but now it is not effective at all.

“My lord. The distance is too far,” he said.

“It’s okay, let the projectile fly for a while.”

“Could it be that you want to defeat them with heavy weapons? I’m afraid you can only defeat them. If you really want to solve the problem, you must try your best to kill their soldiers.”

Trying to kill the enemy’s vital forces, Rurik was satisfied with Yevro’s clever statement.

Looking at the developing battle situation, Rurik said with emotion: “With our current heavy weapons, it is natural that we cannot annihilate this group of people gathered at the seaside, and it will be possible in the future.”

“A more powerful weapon?”

“It is the weapon of fire, it is the power of the gods, and with the wisdom of the gods, mortals can create…”

These words were too mysterious, Yefro couldn’t understand.

In essence, Rurik was implying that the artillery, even if it fired a solid bullet, with super penetrating power, would surely be able to smash a path of blood in the densely packed enemy formation.

Although there is no such big killer, the existing heavy equipment of the Ross Army has already caused a large number of casualties of the Karelian Army.

The death and injury came so suddenly, and the death did not discriminate between young and old.

The Karelian fighters standing here, especially those in the front row, received the most severe blows.

Nearly a hundred torsion slingshots were assembled, and the first round of shooting alone caused more than a hundred casualties on the other side.

When free fire is in progress, pellets, javelins, and arrows harvest life.

In a short period of time, the Karelian Army has suffered as many as 300 casualties, and the situation is still deteriorating.

Elsairas never expected the war to be like this. Before the battle, thousands of troops had sworn that they would be able to defend the lake from the enemy. Now they were dumbfounded, and people began to retreat spontaneously.

“Let’s evade for now and force them to go ashore and fight us!”

Ezairas shouted with all his might, but how could his roar convey the message to all the panicked people?

The Karelians are retreating, and there seems to be a tendency to turn into a rout.

Yefro was taken aback: “Yes. My lord, if they run away one after another, it will be difficult for us to annihilate them.”

It is normal and abnormal for the enemy to behave like this.

Rurik nodded: “Let the large troops land. Yevro, your Suomi flag team will go ashore.”

A new signal began to be transmitted, and Arik, who had been extremely itchy since the war began, was overjoyed.

A handsome middle-aged man stood at the bow of the ship. Arik held the cocked beast with his left arm and brandished a steel sword with his right arm.

“Brothers, it’s time for a decisive battle, come with me! Kill them!”

The people on standby let out a roar, and they used the big oars to drive the long boat out of the gap of the big boat suddenly.

The first banner team was brave and experienced, and the Balmerks of the third banner team immediately followed up.

The big ship put down all the side boats, that is, a small boat can hold up to ten people, and Suomi’s servants are passing through these small boats, participating in the battle with the advancing Ross and Balmerk.

Nearly 2,000 people launched a beach landing with the cooperation of heavy weapons.

A strong team suddenly appeared, and Ezairas, who was trying his best to organize the team, was deeply shocked, but he hoped that his opponent would fight with him on land, and this fantasy seemed to have come true.

Many of the Karelian warriors fled far enough that Azayras had to order his own guards to kill the deserters to restrain the ranks, in order to prevent more from fleeing.

Either because of honor, or helplessness, or drifting with the crowd, most of the fleeing people stopped slowly.

The Karelians regrouped out of range of Ross’s heavy weapons after laying down a litter of corpses and squirming wounded.

Even so, the Karelian Army still has more than 4,000 fighters.

They lined up trembling, and many of them were so frightened that their hands were trembling as they gripped the handles of their spears.

Ezairas tried to stay calm, and he ran to the front of the battle and shouted some inspirational slogans.

“Hunters, take your bows, now it’s time for us to fight back!”

Sure enough, hundreds of Karelian warriors shot arrows at a high angle, and after suffering huge losses, they finally began to fight back.

The north wind assisted their arrows, and there were mostly bone arrow clusters, not many iron arrow clusters.

The arrows were quite dense, hitting the Ross Army landing site in groups.

Many Russian soldiers felt a trace of fear, even if the enemy was very hip, the arrows they fired were as dangerous and deadly.

Bulauaric ordered that the first warriors to land quickly build a shield wall. Seeing the rain of arrows, they immediately half-knelt on the ground and protected their entire torso with an oak shield covered with bronze skin or animal skin.

Arik yelled a few times to remind everyone to avoid arrows, and he also protected himself with a shield, but the crackling sound he was expecting did not exist.

How is this going?

Many people have realized the reason. Even if there is wind to assist the co-author, the enemy’s inferior bow and inferior arrows will not be able to hurt themselves.

Unfortunately, a large number of wounded Karelian fighters suffered.

These people were not killed by Ross’s heavy weapons, and were finally smashed into hedgehogs by the dense arrow rain falling from their own people.

A piece of wheat ears appeared on the ground. If you look carefully, they are all the tail feathers of the arrow shaft.

Arik stood up angrily, looked at the enemies in the distance, suddenly revealed his whole body, and lifted his robe to show the enemies his white flesh.

Esailas was annoyed that the cost of his own arrows was not enough, but he didn’t expect his opponent to…

“You are insulting me!”

Thousands of Karelian fighters saw the white flowers on the opposite side, and they all knew that it was a rampant provocation by the enemy.

The Russians and the Balmerks humiliated the enemy, making indecent gestures and laughing unscrupulously.

Rurik is still on board now, and he has made it clear that the support of heavy weapons will be suspended to prevent accidental injury to friendly troops.

He saw it clearly, and never thought that his clansmen would come to this set of provocative tactics again.

Fortunately, the female relatives were not in the army, and the only woman, Carlota, was a high-ranking nobleman and a woman who wanted to be a man, so there was no need to consider her embarrassment.

This provocation is of course very indecent, and it cannot be denied that this is a tactic, which is to lure the enemy into fury and take the initiative to attack.

The Ross elite did this as a whole, and there was a white wriggling figure in front of the formation.

The humiliation continued, and some even ran to the corpse of the nearest Karelian fighter and openly urinated on it with a large shield.

Could anything be more humiliating than that?

The Russian army is using Viking culture to judge others, and it happens that the Karelians also think this is the most disgusting humiliation.

The furious emotions quickly overwhelmed the fear, and the angry Azairas quietly found that because of the enemy’s humiliation, his terrified army was quickly gathering into a heavy punch.

However, all these are the tactics of the Ross Army.

Or, it was a very inappropriate aggressive method that Arik came up with.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to humiliate the enemy, as many as 800 Mingsu Omi and Vips shooters successfully landed, and there are still soldiers on the way to the beach.

There are twenty torsion slingshots that have been placed on the longboat. They have been fixed on the trolley, and have been directly moved down by the strong warriors since the longboat hit the shore.

More than 700 Ross soldiers in the front row collectively made indecent gestures to ridicule. Everyone knew that the enemy’s arrows could not reach them, so their behavior became extremely bold and presumptuous, and this was just to buy time for the brothers behind.

Yefro did not comment on Arik’s actions. He tried his best to assemble two Suomi banner teams, ordered the soldiers to line up, held a bow in his left hand, and stuck ten iron arrow clusters into the mud.

And those torsion slingshots have been quietly pushed behind the soldiers waiting for close combat, covered by their figures.

The slingshot has been fully charged, and if it goes off, it will kill the friendly soldiers in front of it.

While being provocative, the Ross Army was watching the enemy’s movements out of the corner of their eyes.

Arik had a premonition that the murderous aura emanating from the enemy formation on the opposite side was getting stronger and stronger, like a powder keg in high temperature, it would erupt at any time.

He stood up suddenly and asked Yevro about the situation: “Are your arrows ready?”

“Basically done!”

“Very good! Remember our tactics before the campfire, brother, let’s annihilate them!”

Yefro was very pleased to be called brother.

He knew how Arik was. This guy was loyal and trustworthy. Of course, the men he liked were brave fighters.

Suomi’s two flag teams were by no means pure archers. There were short spears and axes on the ground, and even well-equipped heavy armored mercenaries.

The Suomi people will eventually become a melee fighting force, but when they go out in such an image, the battle should also come to an end.

The first and third flag teams, a total of 300 crossbowmen did not participate in the provocation, their weapons had already been charged.

Afterwards, nearly a thousand people had their arrows resting on the handles of their bows…

The Ross army is standing on the beach, they have completed the formation and are just waiting for work.

Finally, the enemy that everyone is looking forward to takes the initiative to attack in an all-round way, and finally begins!

“For our glory! Let’s go!” Aesailas took the lead, and his brave move instantly detonated the powder keg.

Since archery could not shoot the invaders, the Karelians took up a spear and launched a group attack.

The crazy charge of 4,000 people seemed to the Ross Army that history was repeating itself.

But this is not Gotland, and the Karelians are far less powerful than the old Gotland army.

The Ross army was not in a hurry, and the soldiers who stood up with their large shields and were ready to collide and fight gave way in an organized manner. The trolley was pushed out, and the torsion slingshot was fired directly.

The flat-fired projectile directly kills the fastest, and this can only weaken the enemy’s spirit.

The crossbowman pulled the trigger immediately through the gap in the shield. They only had this chance, but they directly killed more than a hundred enemies!

Short combat was about to break out, and the Karelians shot arrows on the run, and their arrows began to fall into the Rus’ ranks.

Armored warriors are basically immune to these bone clusters, and the Suomi Banner team also launched a counterattack.

If the Ross army can shoot arrows, it basically means that the enemy will also shoot heavy arrows.

But there was another buzz in the air, it was Rurik, and he resumed heavy weapon support.

As long as the Ross Army does not take the initiative to attack, it will not be accidentally injured.

Suffering the impact of projectiles, and even a large number of arrows hitting his head and face from the enemy’s formation, Azairas knew that he was extremely passive.

However, the Karelian army has launched a full-scale offensive. If it cannot push the enemy into the water, it will be the result of being frantically killed by the enemy.

There are a large number of intruders, and they are clearly prepared. They are heavily equipped, and they will soon be drowned if they fall into the water.

It seems that relying on the superiority of the existing troops, pushing the invaders into the lake is the only chance of winning.

But Azairas didn’t know that the army reunited because of the unbearable humiliation and anger broke out, and they were not far from collapsing again.

There were 1,000 casualties before contact with the enemy, the Karelian army was still suffering losses, and close combat was about to break out.

They couldn’t stop, and the only chance to survive was to crush the enemy and push the invaders into the lake. Even if they hesitated to run slowly, they would be trampled to death by the brothers behind them.

The Ross Army shield wall has been erected, and everyone assumes a collision-proof posture.

The soldiers in the first row held their steel swords tightly, the shields in the second row pressed against the front row, and the soldiers in the third row had already gripped their long-handled war halberds.

The collision broke out, and the front line was immediately bloody.

The frontline fighters of the Ross army hid behind the large shield, and the steel sword frantically stabbed forward through the gap.

The soldiers in the back row held swords to help in the battle, and the halberds and long-handled battle axes in the third row fell from the sky, pecking at the enemy’s heads.

Any enemy theory that rushed to the front would be attacked by three Ross Army soldiers. Not only the gap in the front shield was dangerous, but the top of the head was also dangerous.

The Karelian army made a last-ditch effort, but they still failed to break through the formation of the Ross army. Now, although this is the home of the Karelian Great Horde tribe, it has completely become the home of the Ross army.

This was still a deadly battle, and Rurik was glad that he expected the enemy to be simple and reckless. The Russian army, with the most uninventive tactics, seemed to be passively beaten, and the result turned into idleness and waiting for work.

After fighting for a while, the blood of the Karelian army has gathered into a river, and the lake has begun to be stained red.

The shield wall of the Ross army began to push back, and those who were accidentally injured or killed in battle were pulled to the rear, and the people in the back row filled up the position.

The tortoise formation of the Centuries of the Roman Legion is naturally more flexible. Rurik’s Ross army is still adhering to the barbarian style of play, but the pincer tactic, the most efficient annihilation battle tactic, has been used by the Ross army with great proficiency.

The time has come and the enemy has lost all momentum.

Suomi’s two banner teams, together with the heavily armored mercenaries sent by Rurik such as Grund, split into two groups, taking the left and right wings of the central army, and suddenly attacked from the guard position.

The crab opened its two large pincers, and the siege and annihilation battle was unfolding. The Ross army planned to wipe out the Karelian army.

However, Esailas, whose arm was injured and pulled to the rear by his men, sensed that the intruder looked like a greedy and mad bear.

right!

Some iron-covered giants with bear heads on their heads are killing like crazy!

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Morale has collapsed and everyone is fleeing spontaneously.

Aesailas blushed. He didn’t care about the fleeing of the tribe. He pushed away the guards and rushed towards the enemy against the fleeing crowd. Glory, for the sake of the ancestors, fighting to the death…

[End of this Chapter]